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A Huron-Wendat birchbark cigar box or case decorated with moosehair embroidery depicting floral motifs and possibly gathering and cooking scenes, made between 1875-1900. Gifted to the museum by the widow of Johannes Bruining-Lindo in 1948.

A birchbark pin cushion with silk ribbon sides and porcupine quillwork decoration in leaf and floral motifs, made between 1850-1900. Purchased from E. Horloos in 1894.

A twined pouch made of vegetable fibre decorated with false moosehair embroidery and quillwork in geometric motifs, and a quill wrapped strap. Possibly Hodenosaunee or Huron-Wendat in origin and dates from the eighteenth century. Purchased by the museum in 1889 from a seller referred to

A belt or strap decorated with wrapped plaited quillwork, a central netted quillwork band, and beaded fringe with ribbon tabs. Great Lakes, made ca. 1800. Purchased from the widow of the original collector Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg in 1889.

A knife sheath made of hide sewn with sinew and decorated with quillwork and metal cones with dyed animal hair. Possible motifs include eight parallel lines and a four quadrant image. Transferred to the museum from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden (The Royal Cabinet of

A beaded Hodenosaunee pin cushion with leaf motifs, made ca. 1880. Purchased by the museum from collector Herman ten Kate in 1883.

Anishinaabe carved wooden spoon with a shallow bowl that tapers at the rim, and notched handle ending in a circular shape, made between 1800-1865. Acquired by the museum through an exchange with the Christy Collection in 1869.

A beaded Hodenosaunee pin cushion with "Montreal" and floral motif applied to the front, made between the late-nineteeth and mid-twentieth centuries. Purchased by Pieter Hovens during a field trip in 2011.

Made between 1800-1850, a Hodenosaunee burden strap of woven vegetable fibre with central band decorated with geometric designs in moose hair or quillwork false embroidery. A short warp fringe of small tin cones with animal hair divides the central band in half; one side is

A pair of mid- to late-twentieth century Anishinaabe snowshoes from the Blind River region. Donated by S. Schooh in 1991.

An Algonquin model birchbark canoe with quilled decoration, made between 1800-1850. Acquired by the museum through an exchange with the Christy Collection in 1869.

Huron-Wendat birchbark cigar box or case embroidered with moosehair in floral designs, made between 1850-1900. Handwritten note found inside the case indicates it may have been made by a member of the Paul family. Donated to the museum by Elisabeth Houtzager in 1992.

A beaded Hodenosaunee chatelaine bag with floral designs and looped beaded fringe, made between 1870-1880. Purchased by the museum from Eckert in 1882.

A carved wooden Hodenosaunee cradleboard with slotted upright bow and tree motif engraved on the base of the semi-circular footboard. A row of diamonds carved in relief ornaments the top of the reverse side of the backboard.

A carved wooden Hodenosaunee cradleboard with upright curved bow ornamented in engraved geometric designs, and the outline of a man wearing a headdress or feather bonnet engraved on the base of the footboard.

Cradleboard wrapper of two beaded bands of black velvet ornamented with floral beadwork.

Anishinaabe model cradleboard made of wood with cloth doll and woven beadwork ornament and wrapper.

Anishinaabe wooden cradleboard with fitted birchbark liner. Carved wooden contour secured across the back and extending out to the sides of the cradleboard suggests two possible thunderbird figures in profile.

Wooden cradleboard with elaborately carved, engraved and painted floral ornamentation on the front and back of the backboard top. Pictured beaded wrapper added later.

Hodenosaunee cradleboard made of thick bark sewn with vegetable fibre cord.